Latest and Breaking Media News and Top Stories - July 7

You’re almost certainly aware that General Motors is currently suffering through a scandal created by its lack of tech savvy. Yet, even as the terrible PR is somehow increasing sales numbers for the automaker, a new spot created by...

This is a repeat of TLDR #2. Christopher Hermelin has a project called " The Roving Typist ," where he writes stories for people in the park on his typewriter. One day last summer, he found his photo posted to Reddit , and suddenly his i...

Anthony Cumia, fired co-host of the 'Opie and Anthony Show,' will not return to the radio despite an online petition to bring him back, says a report. SiriusXM terminated Cumia after he posted a series of racially charged 'hate-filled' t...

Happy (belated) Independence Day. This weekend was America’s birthday. Contact the fire department for these 238 candles. Now, go to the store — any store — and you will see brands adorned with Old Glory everywhere. Up ...

Moscow-based ad agency Instinct helped Ikea promote a limited designer collection by creating an Instagram-powered website. The agency created the ikea_ps_2014 account on Instagram, which serves as the site’s main page with produc...

FCB San Francisco teamed up with Imaginary Forces and directors Miguel Lee and Charles Khoury for the above teaser for EA’s Battlefield Hardline , which is slated for an October 21st release. The team takes a minimalist approach to...

NPR In its annual reading of the Declaration of Independence, NPR’s “Morning Edition” accidentally omitted two words . On Monday, hosts Renee Montagne and Steve Inskeep apologized to Thomas Jefferson, the original colon...

After a tense and public feud, Kim Kardashian and Katie Couric appear to be burying the hatchet. Kardashian's mother, Kris Jenner, shared a photo via Instagram of her daughter and the journalist posing together at a July 4 weekend party ...

Equities researchers at Barclays increased their target price on shares of Liberty Media Capital from $165.00 to $172.00 in a research report issued 7/7. Barclays’ price objective indicates a potential upside of 126.76% from the company’...

Boy Meets World, a show about a boy and his friends coming of age, went off the air in the year 2000. Fourteen years later a sequel to the show on Disney, “ Girl Meets World ,” starring Danielle Fishel and Ben Savage as Cory ...

In an interview with Joe Coscarelli, Marshall Project editor-in-chief Bill Keller talked about the startup’s coming launch, and what he learned from watching the launches of FiveThirtyEight, Vox and First Look Media’s The Int...

MOUNTAIN VIEW Calif. (Reuters) - Google smartphones with next-generation 3D sensing technology are about to blast into orbit, where they will become the brains and eyes of ball-shaped hovering robots on the International Space Station.

While 4K video is available on both YouTube and Netflix, most of us are still waiting for it to reach mass adoption — and Europe might reach that goal soon The 4K video format has roughly four times higher resolution than regular H...

Welcome to 3rd Quarter. From recent conventions, articles, blogs, new research and staying tuned, the airwaves need to add summer electricity. Radio's respect as #2 behind TV is getting the energy and credibility for a timely one voice R...

While talking about the ramifications of Donald Sterling ‘s controversial racial comments, Bob Costas noted some points people at his network should make. “When people say, ‘well, this is an opportunity to open up a dia...

A new FOIA request has turned up some emails showing a cozy relationship between top Comcast execs and DOJ antitrust officials. In fact, just days before Comcast announced its intent to acquire Time Warner Cable,

BBDO New York solemnly pays tribute to servicemen in their Fourth of July spot for Guinness, entitled “Empty Chair.” The spot, the latest U.S. installment of the brand’s “Made of More” campaign, was created ...

Joe Coscarelli / New York Magazine : Bill Keller on His Criminal Justice Start-up the Marshall Project , Orange Is the New Black, and the Storm at the New York Times — The Paper of Record's former executive editor discu...

BBC journalists are being told to stop giving so much time to guests who deny that climate change is happening. The broadcasting giant has been harshly criticized in the past for its continual habit of setting up a debate about the scien...

This tongue-in-cheek tease for a story about an Arkansas town that decided to repair a broken phone booth appeared in Saturday's New York Times. The newspaper apparently felt compelled to explain this old-fangled technology to readers. A...

NAB has submitted a filing in opposition to motions to transfer to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit the legal challenge to the FCC's Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and Report and Order on broadcast ownership rules. ...

If you didn’t catch any fireworks on the 4th of July, comedian Joan Rivers provided some Saturday when she walked out of her CNN interview with Fredricka Whitfield . “I’m going…all you’ve done is negative,&#...

TORONTO, July 7 (Reuters) - The Canadian government said on Monday it will auction more prime wireless spectrum early next year, with more than half the airwaves set aside for newer players that have struggled to win business from the co...

This week we find out how two major public radio providers are responding to the rise of audio listening on smartphones and other Internet-connected devices. PART 1: Ideas from PRX and PRI The growing demand for audio content delivered o...

In his latest column , Baltimore Sun television critic David Zurawik praises Al Jazeera America for its coverage of the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank. “It was a complex and highly emotional story...

(Reuters) - Touchscreen chipmaker Atmel Corp said it would buy Newport Media, a maker of low-power Wi-Fi and bluetooth gear, for $140 million to gain ground in a technology that helps connect everything through the Internet.

Bill Keller, the former executive editor of the New York Times, recently lamented the drama surrounding Jill Abramson's firing from the newspaper. Abramson was removed from her post as the Times' executive editor in May, and replaced by ...

July 7 (Reuters) - Touchscreen chipmaker Atmel Corp said it would buy Newport Media, a maker of low-power Wi-Fi and bluetooth gear, for $140 million to gain ground in a technology that helps connect everything through the Internet.

San Francisco, CA – At Entercom’s 95.7 The Game, KGMZ we play to win, and we are looking for a Sports Sales Manager with the same attitude! As the leader of our team you would oversee the sales efforts for our radio and digit...

Here’s a quick look at the media news of the day so far. What are we missing? Let us know . — MediaWire Morning: SiriusXM fires Anthony Cumia | N.Y. paper uses racial slur to describe president | Brian Stelter … Read more

Here’s our roundup of the top digital and social media stories you should know about (and from Andrew Beaujon, 10 media stories to start your day, and from Kristen Hare, a world roundup ): — At Poynter, Adam Hochberg explores ̷...

Sarah Palin is dropping subtle hints that she might want to be a panelist on "The View." And by "subtle hints," we mean that she is explicitly saying in an interview that she might want to be a panelist on "The View."* The ABC show is un...

Great writers tend to want to be at the top of their field, so literature can be a cutthroat community. It’s hard to imagine wanting to hang out with a direct rival, and indeed, plenty of authors have feuded with each other or publicly d...